JAMES M. CARTER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the district court, after an evidentiary hearing, granting a writ of habeas corpus on petition of appellee, under sentence of death for the crime of murder. The district court stayed its order pending disposition of this appeal. We reverse.
Appellee exhausted his state remedies by appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court (State v. Alford,
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